(March 10, 2013 at 1:44 am)Darkstar Wrote:(March 10, 2013 at 1:22 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: The biggest mindfuck for me are the dreams that seem like a sequel to a previous dream but when you wake up you don't remember ever having the original dream in the first place. So it's like your mind implanted a false memory of a past dream just so it could have a sequel.
Yeah, that's happened to me too! Except I sometimes have actual sequel dreams. For instance, if I wake up multiple times in one night, I might have a continuation of a single dream, dreaming it in segments between waking. Sometimes I also have sequel dreams to dreams I had within the past couple of days, but rarely ever farther back than that. And then there are the times when I dream the same dream multiple times, but get farther into the dream before waking with each go.
I don't dream that often, so by extension the above dream patterns are rare for me, but there were a few times when I had a dream every night for as long as two weeks.
I have had those as well, and usually the continuation of the dream occurs the same night, almost never more than a couple of days later. Though there are exceptions - I have had continuation dreams where the prior installment occurred many years ago - in one case over 10 years past.
